maybe i’m just young and brainrotted but the first few seconds of the phone blurrily readjusting to the moon affected me more viscerally than any other photo that came out of Artemis
This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10
there's a bit in for all mankind (1989 documentary) where houston asks for a report on the launch and they were basically like "unless something is crucially wrong can you just give us a moment"
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The crew asked for a lunar crater to be named Integrity & another to be named Carroll, after Reid Wiseman's late wife. He started crying, so all of them hugged him. After a silence, Houston simply answered "Integrity and Carroll crater, loud and clear. Thank you."